Marks Marks
Maryland Congress Dist. 8
Taking on Health Care Reform
Taking on Health Care Reform
The most important domestic issues facing society today is the rising cost of health coverage. The United States health care system, while one of the best in the world. simply is not performing as well as it should. The cost of heath care continues to soar and is threatening the bottom line and competitiveness of American industry, leaving many American families uninsured and under-insured. Our health system is facing national crises if action is not taken.
Nationally, the United States spent more than $2 trillion on health care in 2005, nearly $6,700 per person. That will rise to $4 trillion by the year 2015--0r more than $12,300 per person.
As a share of our gross domestic product, health care spending is projected to reach 20 percent by 2015--up from about $16.2 percent in 2005
Medicare outlays will exceed income for the first time in 2012--leading to a 75-year unfunded liability for medicare of $68.1 trillion
These rising costs of health care are not sustainable--not for business, not for government and certainly not for families. As your Representative one of my main priorities will be to find solutions. The American people are ready for their Representative to put their differences aside and work together.
I believe we must build a system that is affordable and accessible for everyone. This can be done with out a government-run health care program that includes the worst aspects of socialized medicine while robbing our nation of its ingenuity in developing new cures and treatments for deadly illnesses.
In the following I have outlined some proposed solutions that have been debated on the Hill. In a later article I will be proposing my own solutions in more detail.
- The American government should consider requiring individuals to have health insurance.
- Insurance companies should be required to take everyone and be prohibited from refusing to cover pre-existing conditions.
- Employers should be required to provide employee heath insurance or to otherwise help subsidize their worker's coverage.
- The Government should should consider allowing people who aren't covered through employer to enroll in medicare or the health care system for federal workers or the or either join a group plan through a trade associations.
- The government should encourage investment in health information technology as a way to improve the quality of health care and lower the cost.
- For the help with the rising cost of medication the FDA should allow Americans to buy their medication from Canada, where the cost is about half of the U.S. cost.
Please fill free to share what your views are. I welcome your comments and opinions on Health Care Reform. Thanks for all your help in restoring good governance Congress.
My Best Regards!
Meyer Marks
Maryland Congress Dist. 8
Restoring America's Democracy back to the People.
Marylanders for Marks
Congress dist. 8
